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01-24-2009, 05:26 PM #11
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Thanked: 39Oh Ps. In Sweden you can be charged with insult, but that is another matter and the max punishment is a fine.
There are also laws against hate crimes, that is violence, threats or publication or speeches that are racist, or against a "folk group" that is based on ethnicity, sexuality or (I believe, but not sure) gender. And I think this is a bad thing, but sometimes it is in conflict with freedom of speech and press and then it is up to the courts to decide.
However I talked to a D.A. who said the laws are ineffective in practice as it is near to impossible to charge anyone for these crimes.